Are we in WA doing something to scare all of these people away? We have lost so many media personalities (for various reasons) over the past year... very sad.

They're probably sick of not having extended trading hours and living with so many backward dropkicks that are against DS!

Didn't they get rid of Deborah Kennedy for her?

Aw shit. Just as I was absorbing the impending departure of Natalia ....... I respect her decision and wish Alicia all the best in her new role

No. After Deb it was Tom Baddeley then Paul Lockyer then Alicia Gorey.

And it has already made its way onto Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Gorey

Geez it doesn't take long, does it?

I want to know who these people are out there that when something happens instantly think "Quick!! Better update the Wikipedia page".

The same people who think "Quick!! Better write an article for AM"

It wasn't me who updated Wikipedia (I never do) but you get the point

Big loss for WA, although great pick-up for GTV. Hopefully she'll do fill-in reading as welll. I am surprised she didn't go to ABC Melbourne though... they could have used her as the third reader...

I think she just wants to get away from that (removed) person who reads the weather.

The bearded one. His name eludes me, tim or is it marty, or filburt something similar.

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Russell Wolfe?

Russell Woolf. And be careful with what you say.

[ Edited on April 19 2008 at 3:36pm by Kevin ]
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Your loss, our gain. She'll be wasted at GTV just reporting though.

[ Edited on April 19 2008 at 3:34pm by Tim ]

Couldn't agree with you more. Alicia attracted a fair amount of criticism of her news presentation skills (eg one post [not here] said she needed to be more authoritative), but I found that she balanced her castings. I think whoever gets the gig will have the job before them.

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First time this has happened on AM.

Gregorius - we have Rule 15 in place for a reason. You can debate almost anything on this site, and you can swear and carry on as much as you want (for the most part) - but you can not discuss the appearance of any member of the media here. Whether they're ugly, look like a baby, bloke or woman doesn't matter. It is not relevant to any discussion we want on this site.

Maybe the person you're talking about is all of those things, I don't know because I don't know who you're talking about. However, whether anyone else agrees with you or not, Rule 15 is one of the few actual rules we have here and everyone is required to adhere to it.

Second warning. Third time and you're out.

What did he say about her?

It was directed towards Russell and it wasn't nice.

I think we will close this one. If any new information becomes available then we will post a new article or re-open this topic.

I have updated this article instead of writing a new one

I've never heard of her before

Me either.

Craig Smart should have been appointed to the weeknight role and Francis Bell given weekends in my opinion.

I like to think I'm an ABC News expert, but I'm somewhat at a loss with Karina


Would the ABC News ever follow that of Seven, Nine and Ten and have two presenters for the weeknight news?

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They tried about 4 years ago in Sydney with Juanita Phillips and Tony Eastley and it didn't last long.

Why does it work on commercial and not on ABC? (Off-topic [?] so feel free to move it to ABC News)

She presented a few weeks ago, very good. http://www.mediaspy.org/forum/index.php?ac...st&id=30880

i think it due due to budget cuts